Everyone Should Emphasis To Raise Issues of Communication Workers

Jan 18, Kathmandu-Stakeholders have stressed the need to raise the issues of communication workers in an integrated manner. He said that there was a need for a joint mechanism to raise the issues of media workers in a unified manner.

At a program organized by UNIME Nepal on Sunday and representatives of various journalists' unions said that we should for the rights of journalists and media workers in their own way.

The program was hosted a program by the Asia-Pacific Secretary-General of UNI International Workers Union Rajendra Kumar Acharya, President of UNIME Nepal Gobind Dhital. They both had introduced UNIME and UNIME. They also informed them about the activities being carried out by these organizations in Nepal.

In the program, Secretary-General Acharya also discussed the developments and practices taking place in the field of trade unions at the international level. Acharya said that compared to other countries, workers in Nepal have not been able to organize in sufficient numbers and have not been able to beg due to a lack of information about their rights.

Chairman of UNI Nepal Shankar Lamichhane, stressed the need to create a conducive environment for workers to work together, no matter which party carries the flag. Speaking on the occasion, Press Council Nepal Chairman Bal Krishna Basnet said that UNIME has played a leading role in resolving the problems in the big media houses of Nepal.

He said he was always ready for the role that the council could play for the rights of media workers and journalists. Also speaking on the occasion was Sambhu Shrestha, President of the Socialist Press Organization of Nepal.

Senior Vice President of Press Chautari Nepal Madhab Nepal expressed concern that the working class has not been able to take the lead in fighting for its own rights. 

Similarly, the president of Shramjivi Patrakar Sangha Janmadeb Jaishi said that the journalists and workers in the organization should fight for each other as they are not safe in their office. Kathmandu University professor and trade union expert Dr. Kashiraj Pandey pointed out the need for the university to include the issue of workers' rights in the curriculum.

senior vice president of the Federation of Indigenous Journalists Gajurdhan Rai,  president of the Madhesi Journalists' Society Mohan Kumar Singh,  General Secretary of the media group Bimala Tumkheva, and Sangita Lama, acting president of the WWJ also spoke on measures to establish the rights of media workers.

In addition, the organization of media workers UNMI has expanded to its organization in 70 countries of the world as said by UNMI Nepal General Secretary Jeevan Bhandari.